About Vanessa
Vanessa Anthony is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who helps people dealing with stress, anxiety, grief and life changes. She works with individuals facing trauma, relationship and intimacy difficulties, and those managing addiction or mood concerns such as depression and bipolar. Vanessa speaks English and draws on nine years of practical experience to support people through painful or confusing times.
Vanessa uses a person-centred stance to build trust and help people feel heard.
Background and approach
She treats each person as the expert on their own life and looks for strengths to draw on when tackling problems. She also uses cognitive behavioural ideas to help clients notice patterns of thinking and behaviour that keep distress going. Her work often includes practical steps people can try between sessions.
These can be small experiments, ways to change daily routines, or techniques to manage strong emotions. Vanessa also brings mindfulness practices into sessions to help reduce reactivity and increase present-moment awareness.
She has supported clients with a wide range of concerns from parenting strain to sleep and eating issues, and with additional focus on attachment, abandonment and neurodivergence such as autism and Asperger Syndrome. Vanessa has worked with people from different cultures and faiths during her practice. Vanessa is registered with BACP and NCPS, which are listed credentials in her profile.
Her approach is collaborative and practical, aimed at helping people take manageable steps toward feeling better and more able to cope.
How Vanessa’s approaches work online
Vanessa commonly blends client-centred work with cognitive behavioural techniques and mindfulness. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening without judgement and helping the person feel understood, which suits people who need space to tell their story. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviours keep problems going and offers clear steps to try at home to reduce anxiety or low mood. Mindfulness involves simple attention practices that help reduce reactivity and improve focus in stressful moments.Finding the right approach is part of the process. Vanessa will work with each person to decide which methods match their goals and preferences. That collaboration means plans are adjusted over time and practical tasks are agreed together rather than imposed.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face discussion and screen-sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions suit people who prefer not to use video or who have lower bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging offer shorter check-ins and the chance to write through thoughts in the moment. These options help people fit therapy around work, caregiving or mobility needs while still accessing sustained therapeutic support.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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